Improvement in bag-holders



o. BARRETT & A. n. BRnoKs.

mprovemerlggag Holdersl No.11'8,897. Patented Sep. maan.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,897, dated September 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OSCAR BARRETT and AZZEL D. BROOKS, of Dartford,in the county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Bag-Holder; and we do hereby declare -that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which* Figure l represents a side view of our improved bag-holder. Fig. 2 is a detail transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. l.

Similar letters of referenceindicate correspond ing parts.

This invention relates to a new device for holding bags open to be lled with grain, vegetables, or fruit; and consists in the use of a semiciroular hoop, folded under the rim of the bag, and of three or more forked posts for supporting said hoop.

A in the drawing represents a frame or base of suitable form, provided with three projecting posts, B B and C. The central post Cis Wrtical 5 the others, equidistant from it, are inclined forward, as shown. The three posts are slightly forked at their upper ends, so that they can be used to support a semicircular hoop, I). This hoop is placed against the mouth of the bag E, and the latter then placed over it, so that when the hoop is placed into the notches or forks of the posts, it will serve to hold the bag in position, as shown.

By this device bags can be expeditiously secured in place, and will be properly held open to be illed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bag-holder herein described, composed of the forked posts B B C, and semicircular hoop D, constructed and applied substantially as set forth.

OSCAR BARRETT.

Witnesses: AZZEL D. BROOKS.

J. H. BRooKs, E. P. LocKE. 

